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Everyday language use is packed with so-called discourse markers (of course, you know, well, I mean, actually, indeed), expressions that we use to comment on what we are saying. Geertje van Bergen…

Have you ever found yourself finishing someone else's sentences, even though you don't really know them that well? Fortunately, the ability to predict what someone is going to say next isn't the…

The Dutch Minister of Education, Culture, and Science (ECS), Van Engelshoven, opens the fourth edition of InScience, International Science Film Festival Nijmegen. The five-day science film festival…

If you want to talk to someone at a noisy festival, you probably shout or use hand gestures. What features of your movements contribute the most to understanding language? Researchers from Radboud…

A characteristic feature of modern humans is the unusually round skull and brain, in contrast to the elongated shape seen in other human species. By studying Neandertal DNA fragments found in the…

The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics is proud and happy to announce that director Peter Hagoort has been honored with a Fellowship of the Cognitive Science Society.

On Tuesday 12 December, Linda Drijvers received the Christine Mohrmann Stipend 2017. This stipend is awarded by the Radboud University to promising female PhD candidates to pursue a career in…

Does language shape the way you think? Does conversation work the same way across cultures? What can diverse languages tell us about how we experience the world? These are just some of the questions…

By bringing together contributions from a distinguished group of language researchers, Annette de Groot and Peter Hagoort collected in one volume the methods and technologies that are used by today’s…

Judith Holler from Radboud University’s Donders Institute and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics received the prestigious Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). The…

Speech perception is a complex task. It involves making sense of an acoustic signal that is distorted by background noise (traffic noise when talking on the street, other people’s conversations in a…

Does it matter in which language we receive emotional information? A new study by an international team of scientists, including the MPI’s Sara Iacozza, shows that it does, and the eyes reveal so…

Languages do not share a single history but different components evolve along different trajectories and at different rates. A large-scale study of Pacific languages reveals that forces driving…

How does the gene CNTNAP2 relate to structural variations in the brain? In our new publication, in press in Brain and Language, we looked at the association between a CNTNAP2 variant and grey matter…

Hoe werkt dat eigenlijk, leren praten? Tijdens het Kletskoppen kindertaalfestival op zaterdag 28 oktober in Nijmegen leren kinderen het spelenderwijs. Een wetenschapsdag voor het hele gezin, vol…

It’s common in conversation for some topic to come to an end, and then for silence to emerge in the place where someone could have said something more. These silences are lapses, and they come about…

People may nod or say ‘uh-huh’ to steer a conversation. But the subtle cue of eye blinking may also be important for communication. In a new Virtual Reality study, researchers from the Max Planck…

Food and Cognition is een programma van de Radboud Universiteit, Radboudumc, Wageningen University & Research, Donders Instituut en het Max Planck Instituut en valt onder het overkoepelende Healthy…

On Friday January 25, 2019, at 10.30, Paul Hömke will defend his thesis entitled “The face in face-to-face communication: signals of understanding and non-understanding” in the Aula of Radboud…

Speakers tend to say ‘uh’ before uncommon words (‘uh… automobile’) rather than common words (‘car’). In a new eye-tracking study, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics show…